Greetings All –
YOU ARE BORN OF AN ANCIENT HERITAGE. This will arise
in your mind naturally, though it is beyond words and beyond description. In
essence it is a pure experience of life and inclusion. What is remembered in
this experience are those relationships that you have cultivated thus far in
your evolution up until this time. Only the reclamation of relationships can be
carried forward beyond your life in this world. The individuals that you have reclaimed
unto yourself as your Spiritual Family now exist as your Spiritual Family. They
form the growing body of Knowledge and inclusion in life which you are now
capable of experiencing.
YOU ARE HERE TO SERVE YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY, your
small learning group that have been working together through many ages and
circumstances in order to cultivate and advance their members so that your
group may join with other groups, and so forth. Like streams joining together
into greater and greater bodies of moving water, you follow your inevitable
course to the source of your life. This is the natural way, the genuine way,
the way that exists beyond all speculation and philosophy, beyond all the fears
and ambitions of humanity. This is the way of things—forever mysterious, beyond
your comprehension and yet fully available to serve you in the immediate
circumstances of your life. Such is the greatness of the mystery of your life,
and such is its application in even the smallest detail of your life. Thus,
your life here is complete.
YOU ARE BORN OF A GREAT HERITAGE. Thus, greatness
is with you because of your relationships. Receive this Heritage in stillness
in your two deep meditation practices today and acknowledge it upon the hour.
Allow this day to demonstrate both the reality and the denial of this great
truth, for as you see the world in its denial attempting to act out the
substitutes for Knowledge, you will learn to value Knowledge and to realize
that Knowledge is here already.
PRACTICE 186: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
There is quite a bit of information in this Step.
Depending upon your spiritual journey to this point, you may or may not have
entertained the idea of Spiritual Families. Now you will.
From the Journal:
6:15
A.M. Tuesday, January 18 – onward and upward. Complex religions gloss
over/hideth reality of contract
8:15
A.M. How does humanity focus on the greater survival scenario of holding its
place in space?
How
do I get my foundation balanced?
8:30
A.M. I have come to the world for a reason – a purpose. I’m OK with that. The
GCWK ideas of spiritual development make sense, but the bigger threat of alien
domination is an idea too big for me. There are those in this area already…it
is a global problem. I was in stillness nearly an extra hour. Earth is no
vacation for sure if this be true, and signs point to yes.
Today
we are continuing to do ecological damage and destruction, plus adding genetic
experimentation. Doesn’t seem too wise. A unity model is needed.
12:35
p.m. At lunch - … I need lots of help to get caught up. I need to be better at
helping myself.
Not much in the journal today, other than dealing
with the intervention, which I note: “is an idea too big for me.” In the Steps
book, a few underlines and, on the second page, an attempt to map the
relationships. It is blue ink, second time through. This is simply an encouragement
for you to draw or otherwise try to illustrate relationships for yourself.
NNC
P.S. At Step 186, we are into Part Two of Steps, so
if you’ve found this and find some appeal in this or other Steps, you should
really go to the beginning blog post. From here you learn about Steps to Knowledge and
can begin it on the day that makes sense and then progress as needed.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
